50 Pfennig

Stadtsparkasse Potsdam issued a substantial volume of Notgeld across 1921 as the Reichsbank's coin shortages — chronic since the war — showed no sign of resolving. Municipal savings banks were among the more administratively cautious issuers of emergency small-change notes; the embossed seal here served both as an authentication device and a visible assertion of institutional standing, distinguishing the issue from the purely decorative Serienscheine flooding the collector market at the same time.

Büllert was a Brandenburg-regional printer with a competent if unspectacular output. Nothing exotic about the production, but the embossing adds a tactile legitimacy most contemporary Notgeld lacks.